An indispensable tool

SharePoint technologies are very powerful, but are missing some easy-to-use management facilities - particularly in migrating content from one deployment to another, either in batches or one document library or list at a time. The Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager is an excellent solution to this problem. I have used the tool on several occasions, to manage both small and large migrations. I find its utility to be indispensable.

A Simple Tool with Loads of Power

An amazingly simple tool that provides huge amounts of power. Site Migration Manager (SMM) gives the user a simple copy and paste interface to copy items from one site collection to another. The user is able to copy everything from, multiple webs, single webs, webparts, pages, lists, list views, down to single items. A configuration menu before each copy begins provides the user with the ability to customize how the copy is performed: ignore certain items, certain libraries, map content columns, copy permissions, do not copy webparts, the options are very powerful. A with a simple clean interface which puts alot of power in the hands of its user.

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Pros

*Easy setup and configuration - using existing credentials or custom credentials
*Copy and Paste interface provide a simple interface for copying over huge amounts of content from one area to another - user can copy Sites, Lists, Permissions, Views, SPListItems
*Supports MOSS to MOSS Migrations, SPS 2003 to MOSS Migration, and SPS 2003 to SPS 2003 Migrations.
*Extensive logging capabilities give a clear picture of what happened during and after the migration
*Batch scripting capabilities allow for multiple actions to be chained together (Batches can be saved locally to disk for re-use)
*Granularity - you can migrate a whole web, a list, a view, all the way down to a single item
*Included service extends the functionality available to the tool
*Amazingly simple!
*Product team is easily accessible and answers emails in a prompt fashion.

A mitigator of SharePoint's biggest risk....

At Habanero Consulting, we've used it many times for internally SharePoin migrations and upgrades and for our clients' migration needs also.

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Pros

The migration manager is an excellent tool to substantially mitigate the biggest risk in SharePoint upgrade projects - content migration. Content migration is an often neglected, and crucial task that is given cursory attention and Migration Manager performs it fantastically!

The (very) simple setup and easy drag and drop user interface masks the complexity and the time-consuming nature of the task at hand. It takes care of background worries like keeping versioning information, user information, and so on.....

Cons

A few files slip through it's gaze and need to be moved over manually, but this might be user error... :)

Fantastic Product

I researched many "migrtion" products prior to my purchase of SSMM. Hands down, it the best product out there.

One key factor to my selection was the method of migration. Other products hit the content data base for the migration, this would void your MS support. SSMM uses the SharePoint API and does and awesome job of it.

Excellent tool for migrations and SharePoint site

The most useful tool for migrations because it allows you to continue to get value out of the product AFTER the migration is complete!

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Pros

This tool is easy to use and allows you to migrate whole sites or portions of them to SharePoint 2007. The ability to move portions of a site is especially helpful if you want to re-vamp your sites or site collections and move sites, lists or libraries to different locations. Additionally this is a great tool to help you move from Development to Test to Production since it allows you to use a 2007 site as a source and a destination. I personally used it to migrate "a lot" of sites from 2003 to 2007. I also regularly moved sites and lists from Test to Production and I love it. The Batch feature is handy when you want to selectively pick lists or libraries for migration.
Administrators will also love that they can work from their desk rather than on the server. Once the server components are installed, the administrator simply launches the Migration Manager and gets down to work.

Simple to migrate existing content

I have used this tool on several client projects; this tool can reduce website migration costs by up to 90%. This product simplifies the process of moving content for the content owner, easy to use and retains valuable data

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Pros

The tool works exactly as described, preserves key dates from source content, such as the date last modified. Accelerates the migration from one platform to another, maximize the investment in existing websites and document content. Simple user interface, avoids labor intensive time consuming copy and paste.

Superb Tool

We used Metalogix to miigrate from a legacy 2003 Portal to a new MOSS system. Worked like a charm and saved enormous amount of manual time and effort. Once the migration was finished, we used the Migration Manager to keep Dev, Test and Prod in sync. Site content could be built and developed, then moved to Test and then to Prod so easily.